From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 3 03:31:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA19570 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copernicus.iafrica.com (root@copernicus.iafrica.com [196.31.1.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA19565 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 03:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by copernicus.iafrica.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA05233; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:30:24 +0200 (SAT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:30:24 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: John Polstra cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibly smoked my cvs tree :-( In-Reply-To: <199610030121.SAA13498@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: X-URL: http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ X-Alternate-Address: khetan@uunet.co.za X-Alternate-Address2: kg@iafrica.com X-Alternate-Address3: gjjkhe01@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za X-Alternate-Address4: khetan@chain.iafrica.com X-Comment: Telkom sucks huge! X-IRC-nick: chain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, John Polstra wrote: >If you have some "extra" files in your tree that should not be >there at all, CVSup won't remove them. Like sup, it will only I presume those extra files are those files not defined by CVS at all ? In my case, if I have the tree in a state before some files are deleted, and then use CVSup to get the new tree, will it delete those files ? >case) will be handled OK. Ok, you answered my question before I asked it :-) >Here's another possibility. I have heard reports that "rsync" (see >"net/rsync" in the ports collection) works well for recovering a >severely damaged tree. You might want to take a look at that. The tree isn't severely damaged (at least I don't think it is). If it is, it'll be far easier to simply tarball the whole thing and re-download it. Good idea though. >Good luck fixing things up! Thank you, and thank you to everyone else who posted with good suggestions. --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org] UUNet Internet Africa [0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com]